Bjorn Lomborg on how some corporations are using the environmental movement to make profit and gain strategic edge over their competitors:
The world’s largest wind-turbine manufacturer, Copenhagen Climate Council member Vestas, urges governments to invest heavily in the wind market. It sponsors CNN’s “Climate in Peril” segment, increasing support for policies that would increase Vestas’s earnings.
The environment movement explicitly aims for this kind of result, where good corporations are rewarded and bad ones are punished. They don’t see any problem.
But Lomborg warns that “The partnership among self-interested businesses, grandstanding politicians and alarmist campaigners truly is an unholy alliance”.